--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you've been through this - but I'd like to know people's ideas about > what exact physical form a Singulitarian or near-Singul. AGI will take. And > I'd like to know people's automatic associations even if they don't have > thought-through ideas - just what does a superAGI conjure up in your mind, > regardless of whether you're sure about it or not, or it's sensible?
It is fun to speculate, but I think that you could not observe a Singularity. Or if your intellect advanced to the point where you could, you would not be able to describe what you observed to other humans. To use an analogy, a Singularity level intelligence would be as advanced over humans as humans are over bacteria. The bacteria in your stomach are unaware of your existence. I believe a Singularity has already happened. The world you now observe is the result. Your thoughts are constrained both by the computational limits of your brain (belief in consciousness, belief in free will, fear of death), and by the model of reality presented to its inputs. For all we know, concepts like space, time, and matter are nothing more than abstract mathematical models in your simulated universe, which bear no resemblance to the universe in which the simulation is being run. This will all be clear after you die and wake up. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
